Emerging Technologies
The Fund for Innovation has supported more than 50 emerging technologies born out of the program, and the list is growing.
2018
Prototype and Demonstration of LED Light Source that Improves Vision at Low Light Levels
Kevin Houser
Email: kwh101@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Low Cost Haptic Force Needle Insertion Simulator
Jason Moore
Email: jzm14@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Next Generation Durability-Enhancing Admixtures to Extend the Life and Reduce the Life-Cycle Costs of Concrete Infrastructure
Farshad Rajabipour
Email: fxr10@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Chest Wall Engagement for Non-Invasive Respiratory Support
Charles Palmer
Email: cxp5@psu.edu
College: Medicine
2017
A Self-Balancing Photovoltaic Energy Storage System
Hosam Fathy
Email: hkf2@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Bone Foam-Hybrid Composite Bone Augments and Grafts
Daniel Hayes
Email: djh195@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Development of Novel Lectins for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
James Marden
Email: jhm10@psu.edu
College: Engineering and Science
Development of the First 3D Bioprinted Pancreas-on-a-Chip Model for Drug Screening
Ibrahim Ozbolat
Email: ito1@psu.edu
College: Medicine
Prototype Testing of a Rapid Cycle Technology for Phytosanitation of Wood Packaging Used in International Trade
John Janowiak
Email: jjj2@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
From Functions to Disease: New IDEAS to Predict Causal Variants, Effector Genes and Tissues Driving Disease Association
Yu Zhang
Email: yzz2@psu.edu
College: Science
Multiplexed Nanosecond Mid-Infrared Transient Absorption Spectrometer for High Throughput Measurements of Materials and Catalysis
John Barber Asbury
Email: jasbury@psu.edu
College: Science
Topical Naltrexone Treatment for Diabetic Dry Eye
Ian Zagon
Email: isz1@psu.edu
College: Medicine
Tracking Online Pharmacies Through Web Mining
Hui Zhao
Email: huz10@psu.edu
College: Smeal and Engineering
Towards Commercialization of Fresh-Market and Processing Tomato Varieties Developed at Penn State
Majid Foolad
Email: mrf5@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Quantifying the Benefits of Dissolvable Metal Supports for Additive Manufacturing
Timothy Simpson
Email: tws8@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Signal Amplification for In Situ Protein Analysis
Yong Wang
Email: yxw30@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Versatile Display Scaffolds for Cryo-EM Approaches
Scott Linder
Email: scott.lindner@psu.edu
College: Engineering and Medicine
2016
A High-Magnification Robust Ball Lens Microscope for External Cell Phone Attachment
Arpita Roy
Email: aur17@psu.edu
College: Science
AnyMDx: A Mobile Molecular Diagnostics Lab for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
Weihua Guan
Email: wzg111@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Bull fertility genetic diagnostic assay
Wansheng Liu
Email: wul12@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Development of an Ultrasound Guidance Device for the Placement of External Ventricular Drains
S. Will Hazard
Email: swh10@psu.edu
College: Medicine
Development of a Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Analysis Instrument
Siyang Zheng
Email: sxz10@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Development of the Flap Jack Retractor for the Use in Soft Tissue Retraction
Rena Kass
Email: rbk11@psu.edu
College: Medicine
Dezi--Rethinking Local Food Linkages
Amit Sharma
Email: aus22@psu.edu
College: Health and Human Development
Got Milk?? A Method for Diagnosing Lactation Performance
Shannon Kelleher
Email: slk39@psu.edu
College: Medicine
Manure Phosphorus Extraction System (MAPHEX)
Alexander Hristov
Email: anh13@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Powering the 'Internet of Things'
Aman Haque
Email: mah37@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Wear-IT Together: An integrative framework for physiological and social data collection
Timothy Brick
Email: trb21@psu.edu
College: Health and Human Development
An Online Marketplace for Mental Health Professionals in Schools
James DiPerna
Email: jcd12@psu.edu
College: Education
2015
A Streamlined Cost-Effective ChIP-exo Epigenomic Assay
P. Franklin Pugh
Email: bfp2@psu.edu
College: Science
An Intelligent Adaptive Network Defense Architecture
Dinghao Wu
Email: duw12@psu.edu
College: Information Sciences and Technology
Antibrowning mushroom
Yinong Yang
Email: yuy3@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Bringing Penn State Mobile Photography Technologies to Market
James Wang
Email: jzw11@psu.edu
College: Information Sciences and Technology
Commercialization of Structure-Seq: A genome-wide method of RNA structure determination
Philip Bevilaqua
Email: pcb5@psu.edu
College: Science
Developing a Tasty, Nutrient-Rich "Recovery Drink" for Individuals Undergoing Cancer Treatment
Petr Bordi
Email: fu2@psu.edu
College: Health and Human Development
Development of a Surface Acoustic Wave Device for Precise Probing of Mechanotransduction at the Single-Cell Level
Tony Jun Huang
Email: tony.huang@duke.edu
College: Engineering
Development of Citrate Polymer-Based Coatings and Meshes for Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair
Eric Pauli
Email: emp163@psu.edu
College: Medicine
Development of High-Energy-Density Lithium Alloy-Sulfur Batteries
Donghai Wang
Email: duw13@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Diagnostic Tests to Improve Dairy Profitability
Troy Ott
Email: tlo12@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
High Efficiency and High Cooling Power Density Electrocaloric Cooler
Qiming Zhang
Email: qxz1@psu.edu
College: Engineering
IGnition: Intelligent Group Cognition and Simulation
Marc Friedenberg
Email: maf946@psu.edu
College: Information Sciences and Technology
Online assessment, MH professionals
Eric Loken
Email: loken@psu.edu
College: Health and Human Development
Piloting Diffusiophoretic Membrane Fouling Reduction
Darrell Velegol
Email: dxv9@psu.edu
College: Engineering
Project TEAM
Richard Hazler
Email: rjh29@psu.edu
College: Education
Protect My Child (PMC): A Secure Over-the-Air Parental Control System for Smart Devices
Sencun Zhu
Email: sxz16@psu.edu
College: Information Sciences and Technology
Scaled-Up Production of Carbon Nanotube Microfluidic Size Tunable Virus Enrishment Platform
Siyang Zheng
Email: sxz10@psu.edu
College: Science
Summit--A Methodology and Software Tool for Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Technology in Complex
Steven Haynes
Email: srh10@psu.edu
College: Information Sciences and Technology
Sustainable Barrier Coatings
Jeffrey Catchmark
Email: jmc102@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
2014
Bioconversion of Marcellus Shale Methane to the Alternative Fuel Methanol
Costas Maranas
Email: cdm8@psu.edu
College: Science
Cyanobacterial biofertilizers soil amendments
Mary Ann Bruns
Email: mvb10@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Development of a Colored Avocado Seed Extract as a Natural Food Colorant
Gregory Ziegler
Email: grz1@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Environmentally Friendly Mass Production of Graphene and Graphene Oxide Ultra-Tough Fibers and Films for Smart Textiles and Gas Separation Technologies
Mauricio Terrones
Email: mut11@psu.edu
College: Science
Inhibitors of the Farnesoid X Receptor and Uses in Medicine for the Treatment of Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Shantu Amin
Email: sga3@psu.edu
College: Medical
Low cost fruit harvest assist device
Paul Heineman
College: Agriculture
Qualitative and Quantitative Point-of-Care Assays
Scott Phillips
Email: stp12@psu.edu
College: Science
Rapid Detection of Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Using Lateral Flow Devices
Chitrita Debroy
Email: rcd3@psu.edu
College: Agriculture
Screening New Boron Compounds for Anti-Fungal Activity Useful in Agricultural and Environmental Settings
Stephen Benkovic
Email: sjb1@psu.edu
College: Science
Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting PAD4 for Cancer Treatment
Yanming Wang
Email: yuw12@psu.edu
College: Science